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On at least five occasions, the name of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez comes to light in the indictment with which the Prosecutor’s Office called the lawyer Diego Cadena to trial on Monday.
Although the defense of the former president and Uribe himself have made it clear that they were unaware of many of Cadena’s actions – including payments to witnesses, presented as humanitarian aid – for the prosecuting body there is no doubt that the conduct of the lawyer Cadena and of his partner Juan José Salazar benefited a third party.
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The criminal lawyer Diego Cadena assures that he has acted in accordance with the law.
For the prosecuting body it is clear that the payment and offering of judicial gifts to two witnesses sought to benefit a constitutional expert. In this case, it is Uribe, who, at the time of the indictment, was still a senator.
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Additionally, the prosecutor in the case, Daniel Hernández, pointed out from the accusation that Cadena, for the benefit of that third party, promised the payment of 200 million pesos to former paramilitary Carlos Enrique Vélez, of which he managed to draw at least 48 million pesos.
For the prosecuting body it is clear that the payment and offering of judicial gifts to two witnesses sought to benefit a constitutional expert.
His hypothesis is that he was trying to get Vélez to falsely testify before the Supreme Court and change his version of the El Aro massacre (1987), for which Uribe Vélez is being investigated.
And in the case of Juan Guillermo Monsalve – the son of the butler of the Guacharacas farm (of the Uribe family) – the Prosecutor’s Office says that there is how to prove that they offered him legal advice and his eventual admission to the JEP in exchange for declaring that he also he had been approached by Senator Iván Cepeda to testify against the former president.
(Also: The audio of the driver and the video of the witness that entangles Diego Cadena)
The call to trial is known at a time when Uribe’s defense hopes that the Supreme Court will decide whether his case – sent to the Prosecutor’s Office after his resignation from the Senate – should be carried out under the old criminal model (Law 600) or with the new (Law 906).
The criminal Iván Cancino is Diego Cadena’s attorney.
‘There is no crime’
Uribe’s defense did not want to comment on the appeal for trial against Cadena. However, for the criminal lawyer Iván Cancino, Cadena’s lawyer, it is one more procedural stage.
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“We received the news very calmly, they are procedural stages. We are gathering evidence to show that no bribery or procedural fraud was committed here in favor of any person, much less to try to deceive the Supreme Court, ”said Cancino.
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